From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" To: cgd@broadcom.com Cc: mrg@cygnus.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com, thorpej@wasabisystems.com, simonb@wasabisystems.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix distinction of 32/64bit addresses in MIPS gas Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 11:00:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010906110030.A32621@lucon.org> References: <20010831190655.B8746@lucon.org> <16878.999310218@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00051.html On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:18:02PM -0700, cgd@broadcom.com wrote: > mrg@cygnus.com ("matthew green") writes: > > sure, there are bugs, but there's no ignoring the fact that these > > tools have been used by a whole lot of people for a number of years > > quite successfullly. it's simply true. > > I don't believe the current versions will, even disregarding > unintentional issues which have cropped up over the past couple of > weeks or months. > > I'm using a version of binutils a couple of months old to generate > (dynamically-linked) NetBSD/mips binaries, but alas there is an > intentional change in the ABI of the binaries generated by binutils, > which breaks compatibility with existing NetBSD/mips ELF binaries and > the existing NetBSD/mips shared loader (which, AFAICT, would have > worked with minimal configury tweaking, previously). > Here is the thing. "make check" in binutils doesn't do much on NetBSD/mips. It also used to be the case for Linux/mips until I turned on them for Linux/mips. I also added a few new mips testcases. Quite a few serious mips bugs have been identified/fixed since then. Without active participation from NetBSD/mips, we have no idea if the current toolchain works, which also include gcc and gdb, on NetBSD/mips or not. The only mips testsuite results for gcc I can find are Irix and Linux. It won't surprise me that the next release of gcc/binutils won't work on NetBSD/mips, out of box. H.J.